Despite the gunplay and blood-letting that suffuses most of his films, Eastwood ensures that the violence is never really gratuitous in order to make the narrative more accessible to a wider audience. Among several other mid- and late-career Eastwood gems are the elegiac multiple Oscar-winning revisionist Western Unforgiven , Bridges of Madison Country — arguably his most sheerly enjoyable film to date — the intense Boston-set murder mystery Mystic River , the poignant boxing drama Million Dollar Baby , for which Eastwood and lead actor Hillary Swank snagged Oscars, and American Sniper Of these, Unforgiven is a modern masterpiece.
Eastwood portrays a retired gunslinger who takes on the proverbial last job when a band of prostitutes puts a price on the head of a sadistic cowboy.
Eastwood cleverly undermines the myth of the Ole West while also exploring the complexities of moral ambiguity through the narrative of a man attempting to come to terms with his guilt-ridden past. Told from the viewpoint of both the American invaders and the Japanese defenders, these anti-war dramas underline the trauma faced by combatants on both sides of the conflict.
A devout Catholic and wealthy polo player growing up in fascist Portugal, he only became an artistic force to be reckoned with in the s and kept continuously active thereafter. I had the pleasure of meeting de Oliveira at a Cannes party some years ago. Already , utterly buoyant and happy to be there, he mentioned that he had just arrived from Rome where, that morning, he had enjoyed the privilege of a private audience with the Pope.
He laughed and laughed when I responded that he was undoubtedly the only man in history who had met with the Pope and attended the Cannes Film Festival on the same day. Other filmmakers who have forcefully demonstrated that there can be lots of life well past 65 or Jean-Luc Godard, who will turn 90 in December, nowadays makes rarified self-reflexive works for a highly select audience; Alain Resnais had a late-life blossoming with a rush of films that culminated in Life of Riley , released in , when the filmmaker died 91; Chris Marker passed at the same age in , having just made Aimer, boire et chanter; Alejandro Jodorowsky made The Dance of Reality at 85, while Eric Rohmer finished his final feature, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon in , when he was Hollywood finally has its movie museum.
I might not like the new guy. Eastwood at 91 is like that, relaxed and at ease. Wearing tan pants and a blue patterned shirted, he settles into the sun in a secluded corner of Tehama, his 2,acre golf club-gated community accessed by winding roads worthy of a land-grant rancho.
Like every Warner Bros. Mitchum did not work out, and other filmmakers toyed with the story with various stars in the role, including Arnold Schwarzenegger before and after his time as governor of California. That sense of trusting your instincts is a theme that comes up again and again, both in terms of what projects to do and how Eastwood the actor approaches a role. You want it to be emotional. For a hack that seems relatively simple, this little eyeliner trick has gone viral.
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